The Iron Thread

I may have used this example before...if so...endure because it is a worthy truth.

Take a spool of sewing thread for the follow experiment.

Wrap the thread around your wrists once and see if you can break it...come on now...its only once...even a baby could break a thread only wrapped once...right?

Now, wrap it twice and see if you can break it.

Now, three, four, ten, fifty, etc.

Keep wrapping until you finally can't break it.

On that time you couldn't break it...the difference between the time before...when you could break it...was only "once" around the ol' wrists.

We think that we will only do something 'bad' once...and then when we get away with it [we easily break the thread]...this makes it easier to do it again.

As you call in sick to work...when you really aren't sick [or whatever the sin] "just this once"...you are setting yourself up to do it again.

And finally when your wrists are wrapped tight...you realize that those tiny, thread like decisions [for the bad or good] actually make you "who you are" over the years.

Either you are growing to be a man of integrity or growing to be a worthless man.

Either way...you are growing, slowly...one thread at a time.